Portal:Current events/2017 June 19

June 19, 2017 (Monday)

Armed conflict and attack

2017 Finsbury Park attack
- At least one person has been killed and ten injured after a van runs over pedestrians outside the Finsbury Park Mosque in the north London suburb of Finsbury Park. Police are investigating the act as a terrorist incident. (News Limited) (AP)
June 2017 Champs-Élysées car ramming attack
- A car carrying firearms and gas bottles deliberately rammed a police vehicle on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France, subsequently bursting into flames. The driver, who was on a security watchlist, was shot dead. (CNN)
Syrian Civil War
- After yesterday's downing of a Syrian Su-22 jet, Russia shuts down a deconfliction channel and says it will follow any aircraft west of the Euphrates as a target. (PBS)

Disasters and accidents

Population displacement
- The number of people displaced globally totals 65.6 million after an addition of 10.3 million people displaced in 2016. Syria, Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq and South Sudan are the countries in the top five. (The Washington Post)
Bear attacks
- Two people are attacked and killed by black bears, in separate incidents in Alaska, following a rise in bear attacks in that state. (ABC News)

International relations

Law and crime

Freedom of speech in the United States
- The Slants win their case with the Supreme Court of the United States that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's rejection of their trademark under the Lanham Act due to their name being "disparaging" is an unconstitutional violation of their free speech rights under the First Amendment. (NPR)

Science and technology

Personal information of about 200 million U.S. citizens has been exposed on the Internet since January when unsecured files were uploaded by Republican contractor Deep Root Analytics. The data, available via publicly accessible providers such as Amazon Web Services, included birth dates, home addresses, telephone numbers, religious affiliations, ethnicities, and political views. The problem was discovered by an UpGuard analyst. (BBC) (Salon)